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July 02, 2013

Oooh–free vCenter Ops to play with for VNX/CX/NS owners…

I’m always surprised how few customers know that vCenter Operations is useful for more than their VMware environment – there’s a growing set of connectors for physical gear, and when it comes to the analytics of reams of data, vCenter Operations is a great tool.

Last year we announced that EMC were doing a custom OEM of vCenter Operations (intent was simple: the version of vCenter Operations that enables third part connectors is part of the Advanced package – which is awesome but not priced for volume, and we wanted to have something that every VNX customer could add).

EMC Storage Analytics is that – and includes the VNX/CLARiiON/NS connector (if you are already using vCenter Operations Advanced, you can use the ESA connector).

BTW – we are looking at expanding ESA to include VMAX, VPLEX and Isilon.

Best of all – it’s priced for EVERY VNX customer to add it (press your EMC or EMC partner sales teams) to their configs. Along with the Management and Reporting package (which adds even more performance and capacity reporting), ESA is very cool.

Not sure what you mean by priced for 100% attachment but when I pressed our partner there is no way we will pay the price we were quoted for the plugin given the cost we already spend on our VNX..... Would love to see/use it but down here in NZ I'm not sure the message has got through.

Hi Chad, how does this integrate with the new vCenter Operations Manager (Foundation edition) that is bundled free with vSphere now?

Can the EMC Adapter just be added to Foundation edition or does it need a second “vCenter Ops for EMC Storage” instance dedicated to the adapter because it relies on the storage features only found in the Advanced editon?

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